This page shows the highlights of the major Confluence releases.

Current Release

For information about the latest release, please go to the Confluence Release Notes.

Confluence 5.6 - September 2014

• Introducing Confluence Data Center
• Keep track of your JIRA issues visually
•  Restrict blog posts
• Collaborate faster with quicker comments
• Recently viewed pages on the go
• Tasks sorting improvements
• Insert date lozenges with ease 
• Sidebar improvements
• PDF Export improvements
• Support for Office 2013

Confluence 5.5 - 30 April 2014

• Tasks that fit the way you work
• Move blog posts
• Disable space blueprints
• Add a custom favicon
• Improved JIRA integration
• Extended Page Properties and Page Properties Report macros
• Confluence Health Check
• New REST API

Confluence 5.4 - 3 December 2013

• Confluence and JIRA: better together for agile teams
• Create JIRA issues from Confluence
•  Give feedback fast with Quote in Comment
• Communicate your releases with new JIRA Reports
• Reflect and improve on your sprints with Retrospectives
• Complete JIRA traceability
• Manage your docs with the Documentation space blueprint
• Macro and blueprint improvements including a new JIRA chart macro, and improvements to the JIRA Issues macro, Page Properties Report macro and Product Requirements blueprint

Confluence 5.3 - 1 October 2013

• Space Blueprints including Knowledge Base space and Team space
• Shared Links blueprint
• Ability to change usernames
• Display page tree in the sidebar
• Request access to a restricted page
• Improved macros including Livesearch, Include Page, Labels List and Code Block

Confluence 5.2 - 13 August 2013

• Faster and cleaner search
• Introducing the Decisions blueprint
• Blueprints keep getting better
• Add multiple layout sections to your pages
• Distraction free editing
• A single, smarter way of adding JIRA issues
• Collaborate with your team on the go
• Speedier interactions

Confluence 5.1 – 27 March 2013

• Introducing blueprints
• Meeting Notes blueprint
• File List blueprint
• Product Requirements blueprint
• New template features
• HTML5 viewers for PDF and PowerPoint files
• Page Properties Report macro
• Improved macros

Confluence 5.0 – 26 February 2013

• A visual refresh
• Updated global navigation
• Content creation made simple
• New sidebar for content discovery
• Editor improvements
• Quick access to recently viewed pages
• Redesigned space administration and space tools
• Improved theming and branding
• Improved user and group management for large sites

Confluence 4.3 – 4 September 2012

Confluence 4.2 – 10 April 2012

Confluence 4.1 – 13 December 2011

Confluence 4.0 – 19 September 2011

Confluence 3.5 – 16 March 2011

• Easy, Powerful Connections to Active Directory, LDAP and Crowd
• Improved JIRA Integration
• Drag-and-Drop for HTML5 Browsers
• Autowatch and Improved Notification Settings
• Sharing Pages and Blog Posts
• Enhanced Code Macro
• More Administrative Improvements
• "What's New" Feature Tour
• Categories, a New Way of Organising Spaces
• Embedding Audio and Video with the Multimedia Macro
• Infrastructure Changes

Confluence 3.4 – 12 October 2010

• New Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac-Friendly Too
• Keyboard Shortcut Dialog
• User Macros in Macro Browser and Autocomplete
• New Plugin Manager
• Improved Performance
• Infrastructure Changes

Confluence 3.3 – 7 July 2010

• Confluence Page Gadget
• Autocomplete for Inserting Macros
• Property Panels for Links
• Property Panels for Images
• Manage Watchers
• Email Notifications for Network Activity and Blogs
• Blog Improvements
• Context-Sensitive Help Links
• Security Features
• Infrastructure Changes

Confluence 3.2 – 24 March 2010

• Autocomplete for Inserting Links
• Autocomplete for Embedding Images and Documents
• A Link Browser that's Smarter, Smoother, Faster
• New Documentation Theme
• New Easy Reader Theme
• Template Bundles
• Reordering while Moving a Page
• New Keyboard Shortcuts and Editor Hints
• User Interface Enhancements

Confluence 3.1 – 8 December 2009

• Introducing Gadgets
• Drag-and-Drop
• Office 2007 Support
• New 'Move Page' Feature
• Enhanced Image Browser
• Draft Comparisons
• Page Restrictions Dialog Box
• Other Editor Enhancements
• New Web Browser Versions Supported

Confluence 3.0 – 1 June 2009

• Introducing the Macro Browser
• Enhanced User Profiles
• Introducing Your Network
• New User Status
• New Hover Profile Feature
• Customisable Enhanced PDF Exports
• Improved Rich Text Editor
• Performance Improvements
• Engine Room and Developer Community
• Administration Improvements

Confluence 2.10 – 3 December 2008

• Introducing the Widget Connector
• Improved Office Connector Now Bundled
• Introducing Quick Navigation
• 'Did You Mean', OpenSearch and More
• Custom Stylesheets for Confluence Spaces
• Updated JIRA Issues Macro with Custom Fields and Dynamic Display
• Enhanced User and Group Management
• Upgraded Rich Text Editor
• Universal Wiki Converter now with SharePoint Import and More
• Improved Activity Macros
• Plugin Framework 2

Confluence 2.9 – 7 August 2008

• Streamlined Search
• Auto Save
• Charts
• Page Tree
• Gallery
• New Tutorial
• More in the Menus
• Alphabetical Page Ordering
• Better Spam Prevention
• Plugin Repository
• Engine Room and Developers' Community

Confluence 2.8 – 10 April 2008

• Dynamic menus and simplified screen design
• Page ordering
• Collapsible comments
• Multiple-label filter
• Confluence installer
• Task list
• Performance enhancements
• Administration, management and monitoring

Confluence 2.7 – 12 December 2007

• JIRA Issues and Portlet macros use new trusted authentication
• Two-tier administrator permissions
• Inserting images and attaching files during page creation
• Sorting of images in Gallery macro
• Simplified and improved logging
• Performance, maintainability and administration

Confluence 2.6 – 27 September 2007

• Fresh look for the Default theme
• Personalised comments and Dashboard
• Space description on Dashboard
• Labels on templates
• Default content for space home pages
• Social Bookmarking plugin now bundled with Confluence
• Back-dating and renaming news items

Confluence 2.5 – 29 April 2007

• Introducing flexible page restrictions
• Dynamic task list JRE incompatibilities
• contentbylabel macro supports AND condition

Confluence 2.4 – 14 March 2007

• Editable comments
• Page mailing

Confluence 2.3 – 5 January 2007

• Confluence Massive – cluster support
• People directory
• Activity plugin – usage statistics
• Blogging RPC plugin – manage news in Confluence using blogger-compatible desktop clients
• WebDAV client support via WebDAV plugin – create, edit, move pages, attachments, etc via WebDAV

Confluence 2.2 – 27 April 2006

• Personal spaces
• Localisation/internationalisation – drop-in language packs (similar to JIRA)
• CAPTCHA support – spam protection
• Improved searching
• Improved LDAP performance
• Confluence ships with Tomcat 5.5

Confluence 2.1 – 20 December 2005

• Autosave
• Concurrent edit warnings
• LDAP integration with Atlassian User/POLIS

Confluence 2.0 – 17 November 2005

• Rich Text Editing – WYSIWYG editor
• Labels
• Dashboard tabs – All, My, Team, New
• RSS builder
• Export pages as Word documents
• Copy pages

Confluence 1.4 – 23 May 2005

• New user interface
• Enhanced editing – doing more in the edit interface
• Page permissions
• New plugin types
• Configurable themes
• Completely rewritten Wiki to HTML conversion engine

Confluence 1.3 – 30 November 2004

• Mail archiving
• Themes
• Trash can
• More granular space permissions

Confluence 1.2 – 23 August 2004

• Page list views – alphabetical, directory view and search view of all pages in a space
• Image thumbnails and thumbnail galleries
• Threaded comments
• Enhanced Search - indexing attachment comments and file names and contextual searching
• New permissions interface